GeoNames Forum

Do you maintain an association between wikipedia articles and GEONames unique ids? Is that something that one can download? If not, can we download the wikipedia articles DB in the same fashion as the placelist database?

Thanks for your great site

Hi Round-Planet

Yes, we keep a relation between most of the geo referenced wikipedia articles and the geonames entries. This relation, however, is not available for download. If you need it I can send it to you in an email. You are the first to ask for it and as long as not many others would like to have it, it is less work to send it via email rather than writing code for a daily dump.

Regards,

Marc

Thanks Marc;
yes I'm interested to receive it in eMail, at pascal@round-planet.com.

Regards,
Pascal

Thanks Marc,

I'm interested to receive it in eMail too, at proffnet@proffnet.com.

Regards,
Mariusz

I think that had people known such a list existed there would have been a great demand for it.

I'd like a copy too.

Maybe as a compromise to writing a daily dump you could just post a link to what you have now and update it monthly.

Thanks for the great work.

Yes lets try this. The url is here :
http://www.geonames.org/export/wikipedia/wikipedia.zip

Marc

Just wanted to drop in and say that this is useful for me also

Hi,

Hmm, this is a great database ! Not sure what I can use it for, but it's definitely very nice information to have ! Thanks for the dump !

Sami Dalouche

The newest dump is available here:
http://www.geonames.org/export/wikipedia/wikipedia-200803.zip

Marc

Is this updated on a regular basis now? This looks great!

Hello,

Excellent ! I was really looking for something similar.
Would it be possible to obtain a fresh dump please if that's possible ?
Your last one is about 1 year old.

Thanks a lot !

Ugo

Is there relation between a geoname_id and a wikipedia_id ?

From the dump I can see an id linked to an ID from Wikipedia in each available language.
I also can see an id linked to another database with some data like coordinates....

But I can't seem to find a geoname_id.

Is it okay or did I make a mistake ?

Thanks a lot,

Ugo

The geonameid is in the file ds.dmp

Marc

how about mapping between gnis and geonames

marc wrote:

The geonameid is in the file ds.dmp

Marc

Ok thanks, I was confused with the name of the fields !

Would it be possible by any chance to have a fresh dump please ?

Thanks a lot,

Ugo